Memorial da UFRPE: a divulgação da memória institucional através de ações educativas

Abstract

Understanding that the museum exists for and to establish a relationship between its community and significant objects of its culture, the present study aims to understand the social role of the UFRPE Memorial as a space that fulfills this dimension of museums. For that, we made a reflection on the pedagogical actions and didactic games developed by the Memorial team. For the research, the theoretical references related to the fields of museology and the history of museums were read. We also seek to understand UFRPE's constitution processes and their social importance to understand the meaning of building a Memorial for a university. In this way, in dialogue with the discussion about the UFRPE Memorial, we used theorists linked to the fields of Memory, Education in Museums, Teaching History in Museums and Heritage Education. The methodology employed also includes an analysis of the sources available in the memorial collection and an analysis of the execution of the games. Finally, we conclude that the educational games used do not act in isolation in themselves, but seek to be based on theoretical research and on the UFRPE Memorial collection. They make each piece used as a reference and source of knowledge about the history of the university. We understand that the communication carried out inside the Memorial corresponds to an educational process that stimulates and facilitates the interaction between the visiting community and the team responsible for maintaining the memorial, enabling the construction and exchange of knowledge.